I've been having a few problems with the ccc bootstrap from the stage1 tarball Taviso has on his website. I tried emailing you directly, but I'm not sure if the message got there OK. I read you were have troubles with your gentoo.org address before.

I've been trying to install Gentoo onto a second hard disk of an EB64 from a RedHat 7.2 partition. I couldn't get my cd-rom to read my burned CD (burned on another computer) to boot to the installation program, so I was using the RedHat to install gentoo, which is working just fine. Here is the cpuinfo file

The computer has 1GB of RAM. I've been able to follow all the set-up instructions to get ready for bootstrap, but then some problems come in. There are two basic problems I am having:

1) When the bootstrap.sh updates emerge, it breaks python and cannot continue. I've read that many people had that problem, but the only advice they had to fix it assumed it didn't break during bootstrap and tools were available to rebuild python.

The work around I found was to comment out the emerge update from the bootstrap file and let it use the (slightly) older version of emerge to do the installation. I believe the tarball uses 2.0.36 and 2.0.50 is what it wanted to upgrade to. This seems to work OK using the older emerge.

Any help or suggestions to fix these problems would be greatly appreciated. I'm probably leaving out some information that you need. Please let me know any ideas you have._________________Bryan J. Field
C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics
Stony Brook University